i am interested in the magic and telepathy in super advanced technology from japan. i'm interested in the future as we know it manifesting itself in little fancy gadgets all around me, like automated teller machines and mechanical toothbrushes and digital clock radios.
fifty years ago that would have blown your mind, today it still blows mine.
i am interested in embarrassment. i get excited when i think about being embarrassed, having my pride swept from me and getting a good look at myself, if just for a minute. seeing what an ass i am. it feels great, i like myself better when i can see that i am just an idiot.
i want to meet anyone who can spell really well but doesn't show off about it or anything. maybe someone who takes double-jointedness to a new level. and people who get a kick out of embarrassment.
i'd like to meet philip seymour hoffman.
and maybe john stockton
iron and wine
"a baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone"
- this line never gets old to me. it is so perfect.
i like the new kings of leon. and even if everyone complains that modest mouse is commercial now i cant complain because its beautiful. i have been listening to pedro the lion's achille's heel a lot, especially "the fleecing"... feist, rufus wainwright, the first tv on the radio (cookie mountain got the attention desperate youth should have). clap your hands, arctic monkeys
it is too hard to say but a few that i may not have lived without include: The Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie, Harold and Maude, Rushmore, In America, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, Vanilla Sky, Punch-Drunk Love, The Life Aquatic, Fight Club, hamburgers, Team America, O' brother where art thou?, Groundhogs Day, Bottle Rocket, Honey I Shunk the Kids, Snatch, The Man Who Knew too Little, Closer, Labrynth, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Fletch and Fletch lives, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, Little Nicky, Junebug(wow) and some others that dont come to mind. i saw one that you need to see if you havent called "me and you and everyone we know" when you do this will mean the world to you.
too many movies to mention... but i love movies.
i have one - the flight of the conchords, entourage, and law and order re-runs
i have some - i want to try books on tape, and books on hamburgers, and hamburgers on tape. in no particular order... as long as hamburgers on tape is first. i should read more. mostly i read casebooks for school but at night i occasionally get in some casual reading. lately it was been rereading an alan watts book 'wisdom of insecurity' otherwise known as white-guy buddhism and i always try to read a bit of cs lewis. i can return to 'a grief observed' or 'the great divorce' on any day and be inspired
i found one - he wears a sleeping bag into gas stations and buys orange soda. he wasnt wearing pants but he did have on a tshirt. the gas station door had a sign that said "no shirt, no pants/no sleeping bag, no service" so he was cool. i think that the sleeping bag he wears is also used as a kitchen... and definately on occasion as a toilet. may be it is his whole house as well as his wardrobe. that would be pretty advanced. on the other hand it may just be his toilet, a kind of porta-potty. it smelled really bad. bad enough to make orange soda seem gross. but i guess thats what it takes to be a hero, dedication in the face of overwhelming odor... and being able to shit where you sleep... not just anyone can do that.